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Entries to Express It In Eight from September 2020 to the present .
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October 4, 2022 at 11:06am
October 4, 2022 at 11:06am
#1038598
Deep Thoughts

Rivers have beds
but oceans have floors,
perhaps because beds have limits
but floors can go on forever,
a great expanse
where shells and fish bones
and the crusty dead
drift down to form a carpet.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 10.04.22
Prompt: Write a poem about the ocean floor.

October 1, 2022 at 2:06pm
October 1, 2022 at 2:06pm
#1038423
Tomato

Tiny starbursts, the little yellow blossoms
pinpricked through the dark foliage,
those hairy stems and proliferating fat leaves,
each a humble nova of secret promise,
a dream of bountiful fruitfulness and red
the bulging containment of juice and flesh
hanging heavy and ripe with goodness,
shining skin taut with liquid bounty.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 10.01.22
Prompt: Four words from poem,
September Tomatoes, by Karina Borowicz.

September 29, 2022 at 1:09pm
September 29, 2022 at 1:09pm
#1038322
Ants carrying seedpods.


Avant Garde

The brothers Montgolfier
made agreement with the ants,
haute couture with lots to say
‘bout clothes from hats to pants.

Paris rang with ecstasy,
the fashion world gone bats,
the catwalk ants of fantasy
parading in those hats.



Line count: 8
Rhymed abab
For Express It In Eight, 09.29.22
Prompt: As per illustration.

September 28, 2022 at 1:03pm
September 28, 2022 at 1:03pm
#1038278
Bushfire in Africa

Clearance ahead of the fire,
an empty space to thwart the flames,
if sweating in the heat
and branches torn off bushes beat,
nor blackened hands and faces,
wearied arms and backs,
fail to hold assault -
firebreak draws the line.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 09.28.22
Prompt: Clearance.

September 26, 2022 at 11:13am
September 26, 2022 at 11:13am
#1038179
Blow Up

The carnival has moved on,
Great Underwater Extravaganza,
and I near sold out
of my happy wares.
Have one on me,
yes, now they’re free,
but not balloons,
they’re pufferfish.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 09.26.22
Prompt: Illustration of diver with pufferfish on strings.

September 25, 2022 at 11:23am
September 25, 2022 at 11:23am
#1038122
Flowers

The great grey green greasy Limpopo
Eldorado somewhere up the Orinoco
those allegories on the banks of the Nile
the heart of darkness deep in the Congo
three men in a boat on a river less longo
the Mississippi took Huck for many a mile
these but a few samples of rivers that flow*
through the pages of books that we know.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aabccbdd
For Express It In Eight, 09.25.22
Prompt: World Rivers Day.
Note: * is the word clue to the title.

September 24, 2022 at 5:02pm
September 24, 2022 at 5:02pm
#1038096
Bluebird

If happiness be a bluebird
it cannot be a blue bird
for if it be a true blue bird
its music would be blues
and blues be the saddest word
the saddest we have ever heard
and so for happiness preferred
another colour we should use.



Line count: 8
Rhymed aaabaaab
For Express It In Eight, 09.24.22
Prompt: National Bluebird of Happiness Day.

September 23, 2022 at 11:33am
September 23, 2022 at 11:33am
#1038031
Paradox

The wonders of the invisible world
are somewhat difficult to see,
and even then it’s harder
to say what you have seen,
since seeing makes them visible
and wonder flees immediate,
the glories of the invisible
made safe and stored in ours.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 09.23.22
Prompt: The wonders of the invisible world.

September 22, 2022 at 2:20pm
September 22, 2022 at 2:20pm
#1037999
Memory

Down the long, dark hallway of memory,
we pass by rooms bright with Spring,
new growth green in the trees and bees busy,
others where winter reigns, cold and grey,
some where waves run up a sandy beach,
or cool mountain air is sharp in our lungs,
and so on down the hall, room after room,
on a trip to the darkness of forgetfulness.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 09.22.22
Prompt: A long hallway.

September 21, 2022 at 2:28pm
September 21, 2022 at 2:28pm
#1037961
Steampunk

Steampunk they call it,
the future imagined
with only a bygone technology
driving,
no computer assist,
all functions controlled
by human hand,
busy.



Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, 09.21.22
Prompt. Illustration of complex array of many faucets.


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